The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-08

drowned at Winnipeg, Tuesday. While
out sailing on the Red river, his boat
YVES upset by regular squaIl. Min could
not swim, and was nearly drowned be-
fore he was rescued by some members of
the Winnipeg rowing club, who saw the
upset.
The collector Of customs at Suspension
Falls, New York, last Wednesday even
ing, seized the Canadian steamer, Has,
tings, at Lewiston, for a violation of the
navigation laws, in carrying passengers
between Lewiston and Olicott, two Amer
ican ports.
E. J. Baldwin's well-known horse,
Lucky B., died late Saturday night at
Sheepshead Bay, New Jersey, from spas
modic paralysis of the brain. -Four vet
erinary surgeons attended him, and
everything that money could do was done
to save him.
The total coinage executed at the
mints of the United States during the
month of August was 9,282,OOO pieces, of
the value of $3,304,3O0. OF this amount
$4,000 were half eagles, $2,970,00O stan
dard silver dollars, $195,000 dimes, and
S18,3C0 half dimes.
The secretary of war has approved the
request of the Ex-Confederate associa-
tion at Chicago, to erect memorial to
the confederate dead, buried in the gov
ernment lot at Oakwood cemetery, near
that city, under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the quartermaster gen.
eral.
No official report of last Fridays trial
of the new cruiser Boston has yet been
received at the navy department but
there was general feeling of satisfaction
among the naval officers on duty that the
vessel succeeded in developing more
horse power than the $500 required by
the contract.
The affairs in the Hawaiian kingdom
continue to remain tranquil. An active
political canvass is being made for the
election under the new constitution,
which will occur September IL. The
nominees for the new house of mobiles and
house of representatives are nearly all
Americans or Engl1shmen.
The recent importation into Boston
from Ireland of five female spinners by
Ross, Turner & Co., manufacturers of
twine, thread, etc., has resulted in a suit
by the union against the firm for VIOLA
ton of the United States statute, pro-
hibiting the importation of foreign labor.
The penalty is 81 900 in each case.
In the New Hampshire senate, Tues
day afternoon, Senator Sawyer, rising to
a question Of personal privilege, stated
that Kirk D. Pierce had on Wednesday
last offered him bribe of $1,000 to make
speech in favor of the pending Boston
& Maine railroad bill, and that he had
spurned the Offer A committee of in
vestigation was appointed. Pierce de-
clares the charge untrue.
The new law against the adulteration
of wine, went into effect in New York
state last Thursday. It absolutely for
bids the manufacture or sale of any
wine that has been treated with any one
of dozen delerterious substances and
leaves water and sugar with grape brandy
about the only things that can legally
be added to the pure juice of the grape
in the manufacture of wine.
Counsel for Henry r. Cassill obtained
an injunction in New York last Thurs
day, restraining Robert and Charles S.
Milliken, Henry D. Clapp, Albert H. Kee-
ford and John East from listing any of
the stock of the Montrose mining COM
pany upon the consolidated or any other
exchange, and from the distribution of
any stock, and from the parting with any
money realized from the sales of such
stock.
A theater at Exeter, England, caught
fire, Monday evening, during the per-
formance of ''Romany Rye" The occu-
pants of the pit, after terrible struggle,
escaped, but many of them were greatly
injured. There was only one exit from
the gallery, and the crush there was ter
rife. Scores were trodden under foot
and suffocated. A fire escape was
brought to window and many inside
were rescued. One hundred and thirty
bodies have been recovered and more to
hear from.
The members of n. J. Crane post, G.
A. R., of Cleveland, Ohio, have adopted
resolutions which declare: That this
post looks with disapprobation and con-
demnation upon any and every demon
stration of disrespect towards the legally
constituted executive of the national
government, the same being subversive
of the foundation principles Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and we hope the
f}ensrtment. in its conyccation at St.